Opinion Is it a recce?
Rahul Gandhi has made the correct moves and noises to establish himself as the undisputed leader of the Congress....
•Rahul Gandhi has made the correct moves and noises to establish himself as the undisputed leader of the Congress (Rahul tests waters…,IE,September 11). Ever since the emergence of the Dravidian parties in Tamil Nadu politics,the state Congress had lost its importance and in recent times the state unit has been hobbled by factional fights making the party a laughing stock. Its been contesting elections by riding piggy-back on either the DMK or the AIADMK. Gandhi should revive the party and should make it a formidable fighting force with young people to usher in an era of clean politics in the state. People are fed up with the chauvinistic policies of the Dravidian parties.
Vijay Mohan
•The government in Tamil Nadu received a serious threat when Rahul Gandhi visited Tamil Nadu,particularly Chennai. The younger Gandhi is trying to popularise the ideology of the Congress in the state and would like the Congress to win an election on its own.
Jayanthy Subramaniam
Sanpada
Starred questions
•Is one to believe that,if not for newspaper reports,the five-star sojourn of the external affairs minister and his deputy would have remained a secret,affording them the comforts of working from a temporary residence that is far preferable to the amenities or lack of them offered in the official bungalows designated for them? It would seem that if the affluence of a governors office charmed one,a long stint at the UN made the other a stellar example of diplomatic finesse. If they bemoan a lack of privacy,what they now ought to
realise is that they are elected representatives responsible to their electorate. Accessibility is the key factor when it comes to transparency in dealings as public servants.
Pachu Menon
Goa
•Pranab Mukherjee must be congratulated for ousting S.M. Krishna and Shashi Tharoor from five-star hotels,though the two ministers say that they have been paying from their pockets for their hotel expenses.
K.G. Acharya
Fake,shameful
•This refers to your editorial Awarding encounters (IE,September 10). We revoked a draconic POTA,thus adding some shine to our democratic values. The US,post-9/11,passed the Patriot Act that perhaps became an unfortunate prelude to and a cover for unbridled use of institutionalised torture on suspects that followed. Having said this,it did not take us long to shed our own democratic inhibitions to graduate beyond mere torture and take the encounter route to eliminate suspects. That police personnel are subtly rewarded for such atrocities adds little to our stature as a nation that believes in the rule of law.
R. Narayanan
Ghaziabad
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